Chairman Free TV Nigeria encourages Kwarans to establish community broadcast stations

Date: 2018-03-12

The people of Kwara State have been urged to invest more on community broadcasting as a means of reaching out to the people at the grassroots in various languages .

The Chairman Free TV , Nigeria , Mr Kunle Oshinsanya Afolabi gave the advise in Ilorin , the state capital while featuring on a Radio Kwara personality interview programme, Playing Host .

Mr Afolabi noted that community radio stations would further allow for easy communication, reduce communal clashes , create new openings for the teaming population, new job opportunities , while its cost effective and commended the state government for digitizing its broadcast stations.

Similarly, he implored Kwarans to apply for the manufacturing of decoder boxes through the Nigeria Broadcasting Commission (NBC) as the boxes needed in country today is not less than two hundred million to meet up with the present Nigeria's population.

According to him , local manufacturing of the decoder boxes would improve our technological base , improve our economy and create employment opportunities for our youths and announced that NBC has already granted seven indigenous manufactures to manufacture the boxes locally.

He added that the boxes are given out to Nigerians by the Federal Government free as part of its subsidy programme and that the one thousand , five hundred Naira paid per box is for the revenue paid is for Radio , Television and Local government licenses stressing that ordinarily , each decoder box cost between thirty five to forty dollars.

The Chairman of Free TV who enumerated the advantages of digitization disclosed that it disallows piracy as no one takes the job of another while it would enhance clarity and quality, as well as allows for more stations to be watched.

Mr Afolabi cleared the air on the issue of meeting the deadline for digitization and disclosed that the country was still on course adding that recently some African countries even came to Nigeria to understudy her digitization proceeds and they were impressed and pleaded with Nigeria to assist them in setting up their Digital Switch Over (DSO) project.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Saudat Abdulbaqi     KWSUED     Donatus Ejidike     Ilorin Central Mosque     Isaac Gbenle     Muhammed Taofeeq Abdulrazaq     Hamza Usman     Nigerian Army     Kwara Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     KWASEIC     Sunday Fagbemi     Iyeru Grammar School     Oyawoye     Old Oyo     Durosinlohun Atiku     Moses Salami     Osuwa     John Dara     Bisi Oyeleke     Toyin Saraki     Lanre Issa Onilu     YAKOOYO     Hussein Oloyede     Makama Of Kaiama     Tsaragi     Moses Rahman Popoola     Tinubu Legacy Forum     Garba Ayodele Wahab     Yomi Ogunsola     CBT     Hassan Abdulazeez Elewu     Muhammed Akanbi     Chartered Institute Of Personnel Management Of Nigeria     Bisi Kristien     Sobi Hill     Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah     Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union     Tunde Mukaila Mustapha     Muhammad Toyin Sanusi     Ilorin Curfew     Kamaldeen Gambari     ER-KANG     Yoruba     Raliat Islamic Foundation     Oyelere Oyinloye     Hassan Oyeleke     Saidu Kawu     John Kehinde Salako     Rex Olawoye     Voices Of Tomorrow     Congress For National Consensus     Shaykh Luqman Jimoh     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Adeniyi Ojo     Offorjama     Madawaki     Ijagbo     Timothy Akangbe     Halidu Danbaba     Babatunde Idiagbon     Surajudeen Akanbi     Col. Taiwo     Oyin-Zubair     Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa     Ilorin Muslim Community     Olateju Lukman     Peculiar Allowance     Aso-ofi     Danladi     Bayer AG     Kwara Basketball Association     Folaranmi Aro     Coronavirus     Abdulraheem Olesin     Idofin     JAAC     Iyabo Dupe Adekeye    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Alapado     Garuba Alikinla Shittu     Abdullahi Saadudeen Alikinla     Aasiyat Bello Oyedepo     Razaq Ayobami Akanbi     Abdulrasaq Alaro     Yusuf Amuda Abubakar     Undergraduate Bursary     Balogun Fulani     Raji AbdulRasaq     Abdullahi Atanda     Esinrogunjo     COVID-19 Palliatives     Sheikh Ridhwanullah     Smart School     UNILORIN Alumni Association     Aishat Mohammed Lawal     Abdulrazaq Akorede     Sardauna Of Ilorin     Kayode Ishola     Bluenile Associates     Kulende     Ijagbo     Illyasu Abdullahi     Moses Adekanye     Park     Zaratu Umar     University Road     Oba Mogaji Abdulkadir     TIIDELab     Sidikat Uthman Ajibola     Oba-Solagberu     Kwara Volleyball Association     Kisra     Saka Adeyemo     Iyeru Grammar School     IsDB     Niguel Gallando Marcias     Oloje     Abdulkareem Alabi     AbdulKareem Yusuf Danhawa     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Mashood Dauda     Ayobola Ipinlaiye     Sayomi     Waheed Ibrahim     Olabode George Towoju     Wahab Femi Agbaje     Binta Abubakar-Mora     Idris Garba     Ibikunle Ogunleye     March 28     Photo News     Atiku     Samuel Elizabeth Keatswa     UITH     Adedipe     Rex Olawoye     Olatomiwa Williams     Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa     Tricycle Owners Association Of Nigeria     Abubakar Bature Sulu-Gambari     Bayo Onimago     AIT Ilorin     Kwarareports     Bello Oyebanji     Mahe Abdulkadir     Opaleke Bukola Iyabo     Abdulkadir Orire     Osuwa     Tunde Kazeem     John Olajide Adedipe     Mufti Of Ilorin     Muhammad Mustapha Suleiman     Ike Ekweremadu     Joseph Daudu     Sarkin Malamai